Robbers throw cash out of window in LA car chase (VIDEO)

Maybe they were trying to be modern day Robin Hoods.

Robbers involved in a high speed car chase in Los Angeles on Wednesday starting throwing fistfuls of cash out of the window, as they were pursued by the police.

Two men were captured, according to the Associated Press, but not before two others escaped in the San Fernando Valley.

The pursuit followed freeways in Los Angeles and then went into neighborhoods where people ran into the streets as the money was tossed out.

The New York Daily News said the chase started when armed four men robbed a Bank of America around 10 a.m. in the Canyon County area of Santa Clarita.

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"This isn't something we see every day," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman Capt. Mike Parker, according to a local NBC station.

"If they thought that by throwing money out the window, that that would distract us or have people get in the way and block us — they're going to run out of money," he said. "We're not going to run out of sheriff's deputies. We're not going to run of helicopters. We're going to stick with them."

Parker added, "I can't imagine they did this for the good of the community."

The chase came to an end when traffic blocked the suspects in South Los Angeles, about 80 minutes after the chase began.

A local resident told NBC, it was "kind of like a Robin Hood situation, rob from the rich, give to the poor. Everybody's out to kind of get some of the money."

Here's a video of the chase, with money thrown out of the windows, courtesy of NBC:

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